Combined snap-hook and buckle.



No. 889,013. A PATENTED MAY 26, 1908. J. W. HUTGHISON.

COMBINED SNAP HOOK AND BUCKLE.

APPLIOA'IION FILED JULY 2, 1907.

ATTORNEYS H: NORRIS Pmsns cm, WASHINGTUN, o. c,

JOHN W. HUTGHISON, OF NEW MATAMORAS, OHIO.

COMBINED SNAP-HOOK AND BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Application filed July 2, 1907. Serial No. 381,831.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. HU'romsoN,

able buckle, disposing the buckles at each end of the snap hook for the connection of strap ends in sequence by means of the buckles.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a art of this specification, and characters 0 reference thereon, similar characters indicating corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved snap hook and buckle, having a strap engaged therewith, another buckle being shown mounted u on the snap hook for engagement with an on of a strap; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, substantially on the line 22 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 8 is a side view of the improved buckle and snap hook detached from other parts that appear in the preceding figures.

The frame 5 for the buckle that is a detail of the invention is preferably rectangular, and at a suitable distance from the transverse end bars 5 5 thereof an integral cross bar 5 is formed. Centrally on the cross bar 5 a tongue 6 is rockably connected by one end a, as shown in Fig. 2, the other end of the tongue bearing upon the opposite frame end bar 5 hus adapting the buckle for connection with a perforated strap A when said.

strap is passed hrough the buckle frame be tween the end bars 5 and cross bars 5, pass ing over the latter into engagement with the tongue 6 and thence under the frame end bar 5 as shownin Fi s. 1 and 2.

At points equal fy distant from the center of the frame end bar 5, two similar side bars 7, 7, for a snap hook, are projected therefrom in parallel planes, and at b are curved upwards and rearward, their extremities being joined together as at c, forming a nib, these side bars as formed and connected affordin a slotted snap hook frame, that is integrad with the buckle frame already described.

In a recess d, formed between the side bars 7 in the frame end bar 5 one end of a keeper bar 8 is rockably mounted upon a transverse pivot e, that is secured by its ends in the side walls defining the recess (1. The free forward end of the keeper bar 8 is bent downward and is curved at the rear side forming a depending toe g thereon, and above the toe said end of the keeper bar normally has contact with the under side of the extremity or nib c of the snap hook frame.

Upon the pivot e, a coil spring 9 is mounted, occupying the recess (1 at one side of the keeper bar 8. The coil spring has two limbs h, h, that normally diverge owing to the re silience of the coil they are members of, the limb h bearing upon the under side of the keeper bar 8 and the limb it upon a web 7 that joins the frame bars 7 near the trans verse frame bar 5 It will be seen that the expansion of the coil spring 9, will press the keeper bar 8 into engagement with the nib c on the snap hook frame, thus adapting the snap hook to hold the body of a harness ring or buckle cross bar loosely secured in the hooked end of the snap hook frame, wherein it is held by the depending toe g on the keeper bar 8.

The snap hook may have a buckle frame such as 10, loosely mounted therein for connecting a strap B in sequence with the strap A. The buckle frame 10 is of wellknown construction and comprises two side bars 0L, 1 connected together and spaced apart by the cross bars 4,, W, at corresponding ends of said side bars, a third cross bar i extending between the side bars t, 71, at a suitable point between the end cross bars.

Upon the intermediate cross bar F, a tongue 10 is rockably secured by one end, and thence extends toward the end cross bar t whereon its end seats.

The buckle just described may be mounted upon the snap hook framebars 7, 7 by passing the tongue 10 through the space between said frame bars near the nib end 0, to effect which the keeper bar 8 is depressed, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig.2. The cross bar i is now seated in the concavity of the curved members I) on the side bars 7, and the keeper bar 8 is permitted to resume a normal position, as shown by full lines in Fig. 2, which will operatively connect the loose buckle frame with the bights of the curved working ends on the snap hook frame members 7, 7, and the keeper limb g.

Obviously as shown in Fig. 2, the strap B may be attached upon the buckle ust described, and be adapted for extension in alinement with the strap A.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The combination with a buckle frame, a tongue rockable thereon, a snap hook having a frame comprising two side bars that are integral with the buckle frame, and a rockable keeper bar pivoted on the buckle frame and between the side bars, of a buckle frame and a tongue thereon mounted upon the snap hook frame, the tongue of said buckle passing between the side bars on the snap hook frame, and a cross bar on said buckle frame loosely held between a curved end of the snap hook frame and the free end of the keeper bar.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN WV. HUTCHISON.

Vitnesses:

CHRISTOPHER W. GRIMES, JASPER LISK. 

